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Lab Safety: Identifying Hazards & Risks

This document provides an overview of lab safety for students. It discusses identifying hazards in the lab and how to protect yourself. Key hazards mentioned include fire/heat from Bunsen burners, which can be protected against by tying back hair and keeping papers off desks. The document instructs students to look around the classroom, identify hazards of various items, and suggest protections and assess the risk of injury. It also provides a sample risk assessment of the chemical Dihydrogen Monoxide and assigns creating a risk assessment as homework.

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Lab Safety: Identifying Hazards & Risks

This document provides an overview of lab safety for students. It discusses identifying hazards in the lab and how to protect yourself. Key hazards mentioned include fire/heat from Bunsen burners, which can be protected against by tying back hair and keeping papers off desks. The document instructs students to look around the classroom, identify hazards of various items, and suggest protections and assess the risk of injury. It also provides a sample risk assessment of the chemical Dihydrogen Monoxide and assigns creating a risk assessment as homework.

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Lesson 2 28 January 2021

Hazards in the Lab


LO: To learn how to protect yourself from hazards

Keywords
•Hazard
•Risk
•Safety
NAME THE HAZARD
What is the hazard?
How you could protect yourself from it?
What is the hazard?
How you could protect yourself from it?
What is the hazard?
How you could protect yourself from it?
What is the hazard?
How you could protect yourself from it?
What is the hazard?
How you could protect yourself from it?
HAZARD VS.
RISK
I think a hazard is…

I think a risk is…


Lab equipment is designed to minimise hazards

TASK:
Look around the classroom for hazards for each one
you should:
•State the hazard
•State the item
•Suggest how you can protect your self
•Assess how likely you are to be hurt
•Explain what to do if you do get hurt

Item Hazard Protection Risk

Bunsen Fire and heat Hair tied up, no Medium- put burned area
Burner causes burns running in lab, paper under cold tap if burned.
off the desks.
Item Hazard Protection Risk

Bunsen Fire and Hair tied up, Medium- put


Burner heat no running burned area
causes in lab, paper under cold tap if
burns off the burned.
desks.
• Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a
colorless and odorless chemical
compound, also referred to by some as
Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide,
HEALTH HAZARD Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric
INFORMATION
EYE : Irritant in sensitive
acid.
persons • Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl
Skin Contact : May cause radical, a species shown to mutate DNA,
discomfort depending on denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes,
temperature. and chemically alter critical
Inhalation : Inhalation of
liquid can cause serious
neurotransmitters.
discomfort, possible tissue • The atomic components of DHMO are
damage and is often fatal. found in a number of caustic, explosive
Ingestion : Ingestion of large and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric
quantities may result in Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
excessive micturition.

TASK: Create a risk assessment for this chemical.


HOMEWORK
Design an item of clothing
that could protect you from
one of the hazards you’ve
learnt about.
DUE NEXT WEEK
(Thur 13th Feb)

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